ACROBAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acrobat mean? 

• ACROBAT (noun)
  The noun ACROBAT has 1 sense:

1. an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination

  Familiarity information: ACROBAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACROBAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("acrobat" is a kind of...):

athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acrobat"):

aerialist (an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze))

balancer (an acrobat who balances himself in difficult positions)

circus acrobat (an acrobat who performs acrobatic feats in a circus)

contortionist (an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions)

funambulist; tightrope walker (an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope)

 Context examples 

No one but an acrobat or a sailor could have got up to that bell-rope from the bracket, and no one but a sailor could have made the knots with which the cord was fastened to the chair.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)